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November 16.1979
Faculty needs raise
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes is hoping that his push Wednesday for an 8 percent increase in faculty salaries made an impact on Gov. John Carlin and State Budget Director James Doe does the University community.
Dykes made his proposal during the annual budget hearing, saying that there was "no higher priority" in KU's budget for fiscal year 1981 than increasing salaries. Dykes says that the 6 percent figure that Bibb arrived at for the budget was insufficient in memorization from the Kansas Board of Regents is totally inadequate.
He's right.
THIS UNIVERSITY already lags behind its peer institutions in faculty salary levels. And the double impact of 13 percent inflation and just a 6 percent salary increase would certainly detract from KU's drawing power.
As Dykes told Carlin and Bibb, "Without good people, without good faculty, we can't provide high quality education for our young people."
And Jordan Haines, Regents chairman, added, "There is no justice asking our highly qualified facilitates to take on the job in terms of true purchasing power."
Both men point out the vital necessity of maintaining decent salary levels for members of the University community.
CARLIN HAS two months to consider the proposal and arguments presented by Dykes. He has two months to think about the importance of maintaining decent faculty wages in the interests of our state institutions of higher education. He has two months to consider what happens to KU each time we lose good faculty to other universities that have pay schedules that at least attempt to help their faculty members battle inflation.
Maybe in those two months, Carlin will decide in favor of better higher education in the state of Kansas and present to the Kansas Legislature's budget committee a salary increase proposal that reflects such a concern.
Presidential campaign managers are always ready for the unexpected. They have an inherent elastic nature that allows them to handle the demands of a dreamstream to help will The Candidate.
Ink for Iran stalls candidates' plans
But the campaign managers of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Gerry J. Brown Jr. Ron Reagan and a dozen others who have anointed him as president are probably a little confused right now.
They know how to compete with other candidates. They know how to arrange for whistle-stops and fund raising dinners. They know what to do when their candidate faces an international incident that has overshadowed everything for the past and that shows few signs of diminishing—the Iranian occupation of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the captivity of 62 Americans. This is surely something the campaign primer doesn't
NOW IT COULD be argued that this is an issue like any other, that it won't have any more effect on the presidential race than inflation; energy or SALT II.
But that isn't so. Given the length and the nature of the prisonation and given the role Press Secretary, this issue could make all the difference to voters looking for solid-as-a-rodeer leader.
Little else in the news recently has evoked such interest or reaction from readers and journalists, but its recent reaffirmation is reflected in the amount of time the major networks have spent covering its developments. BCR, for example, has also been a hotbed of occupation.Bright, it has devoted as much as ten minutes of its 30-minute film from related stories. That’s a lot of time.
Iranians unduly harassed
To the Editor:
Obtaining a college education is filled with anxiety for many—if not—college students. Anxiety can, and does, effect the way you learn, most of which are not enjoyable or healthy.
I imagine that foreign students have to contend daily with a comparatively high number of people from overseas and in the United States have undoubtedly increased the problems some foreign students face.
Bomb threats effect all residents of a dorm—not just the target population. Anxiety levels (and resulting poor performance) are increased for all the victims.
Hassarment of Iranian students through threats of deportation, physical abuse and artificial checks is not any more common than the holdings of American hostages in Iran.
It is unconscionable to me that anyone should hold another's educational achievement in abeyance for any political reason.
I think that KU administers, faculty, and students should make a concerted effort to reduce the anxiety level of all students on this campus. Students should not be held hostage by any means, whether physically or mentally. The students' in their sex, ethnic origin or handicap.
I have never observed a human interaction where two wrong aggressive acts have yielded a positive outcome. I imagine that students will learn to lead to nothing but heightened anxiety for all involved, as for many who do not choose to become adversaries.
Let's get back to the process of education and allow all to resume their chosen tasks in the least stressful environment.
Brian G. Angevine
Lawrence graduate student
We deplore the actions of those Iranian students who have taken over the U.E. embassies in Iran and are holding Americans from Iran to study at the university students from Iran studying at the University of Kansas have no responsibility for these actions, and we are concerned about the lack of access to these students of the incidents that occur in Iran, we wholeheartedly believe that we must protect the rights of foreign students here at KU and that we in the University community want to protect their defenders of basic civil and human rights. Even though the Khomiine regime does not tolerate these basic rights, they are violated by the authorities for all citizens, non-citizens alike.
On campus, we must protect the rights of Iranian students, just as we would those of American students. We must express themselves freely and be free from fear of abuse. We say this regardless of our position.
We wish to emphasize that we condemn the use of violence or harassment on either side of the conflict, and we urge every student to report any abuse. We also call for no such improper behavior occurs at KU.
KU Iranians' rights should be protected
To the Editor:
Student Body President
George Gomez
Boston Board of Education President
and 15 other leaders of
student organizations
Margaret Berlin
Coverage ignores Shah's background
UNIVERSITY DAILY letters KANSAN
To the Editor:
the taking of hostages in Iran, but is an attempt to understand it. This is something the American press has made little effort to do.
As I understand it, many Iranianists view the Shah much as we would victory Hitler, and I agree. But the British and Soviet oil supplies, British and Soviet forces drove the Shah's father, Reza Shah, out of the country for his refusal to expel his ally the Islamic State in South Africa. The man surely had fine associates. The British then installed the British government in numerous munitions, more or less as their pump.
At that time Iran had a 'working parliamentary government', and in 1951, that government, headed by Prime Minister Mossadeq, nationalized foreign oil concessions. In 1962, the Mossadeq, Mossadeq, failed, and fled the country, but returned to power in a CIA-backed coup.
THE SHAH might reasonably appear to tranama as a man who sold his country's resources, but he was an activist in the river to the United States. He came into power with strong U.S. support, and reentered the American political arena to join the 1973 oil embargo against this country, and generally supporting American interests.
If he surely was our friend, he was not so surely a friend of his own people. Anyone who is afraid of him can find strong evidence of widespread political repression and torture by the Shah's forces. If from a finding it difficult to reconcile antifascist factions, we should remain silent and avoid those factions or one thing, that the Shah from their perspective there were some very good reasons why he had to go. Yet the American press had very little to say about what he did.
Surely the press could do a better job than it has of informing us of the background of the crisis. American press coverage since the 1980s has consistently shallow and one-sided. The press has given very little attention to the acts of the Shah and of this country that generated support for the revolution and its overthrow. Our intelligence may mind help you understand the takeover of the embassy as something more than a mindless terrorist attack on the United States. To understand is not to condone, but to help may find a way to save the hostages.
RIGHTLY OR wrongly, the United States is harboring this man. He is very ill, and whatever he has done, it would have been cruel to refuse him medical treatment because he is a victim of abuse that he is hardly an innocent victim expelled from his country for no reason. His was a brutal regime. Although the taking of hostages and other acts of terrorism cannot be justified, the hatred of the Shah and of the attacker could be backed into without rational grounds.
Cambodian and/or Vietnamese government is blocking virtually all relief efforts into Cambodia, even though we allow these lunatic to tell us what we can and cannot do to help the starving.
Use drastic means to save Cambodians
Let's not let this happen. If we can't get the Cambodian government's permission, then it's act without their permission. Lets get the necessary food and medical supplies to those people, by whatever means is appropriate, about the political consequences later.
Lawrence graduate student
Please, let's call up our nation's leaders to act—to act with as little military force as we can, to protect ourselves from the food and aid to these poor people before it's too late. We've already waited too long and if we wait much longer, we're going to end up protecting an entire nation on our conscience.
Lawrence graduate student
James J. O'Malley
To the Editor:
In the United States we have some very inconvenience problems. We have double-digit inflation, a fuel shortage and a "spirit of malaise."
Letters Policy
In Cambodia, millions of people are starving and they will die unless we do something very drastic, very soon. The
Don Fensler
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melissa thompson
COLUMNIST thompson
To presidential campaign managers, that's also a lot of money. You see the issue not only for what it is, but for what it is doing or could do with their 'bosses' chances for the
THAT'S NOT crass or inhumane. That's politics.
So what effects could the Iranian crisis have on the presidential race?
most importantly, it has set back the pace of the campaign and will delay the frenzied pitch that most candidates are striving for before the New Year's onslaught of bellwether caucuses and primaries.
The Iowa causes occur in late August, Minnesota and New Hampshire's primaries are scheduled for late February.
The Iranian crisis has even undershot the tension between the two in the race, Jerry Brown and Ronald Reagan. Kennedy's announcement caught the expected splash and play in the national news, prompting a flurry of criticism.
PERAHFAS THIS incident has also in-
spired us to consider the popularity context between Carter and Kennedy. Some opinion magazines, such as The New York Times, have since early November that it is far too easy to begin the race. Now their wish has come true for the campaigns in a definite stall.
Another effect the Iranian incident will
have is to add depth to the shadow, intangible issue that has earned criticism of Carter—leadership. Campaign managers also second-guess his stand on the occupation.
EARLY POLIS are beginning to show
that the idea of a state to be born
in Carter, if Iran situation defa-
tails successfully, Kennedy stands to lose a lot
more. A Carter tempered by this kind of fire
is not likely.
The most curious thing, however, is the fact that candidates have not been making the proverbial political hay they would. In an effort to avoid inflaming the Iranians further, candidates criticisms, if any, have been fait. That must be agonizing to their campaign managers, who can deal with anything except a holding pattern.
Best make-out spot: Weis Overlook.
Best place for live country music: The Lawrence Opera House.
Lawrence culture goes beyond General Custer's stuffed horse
MOST ENTERTAINING concert held in years at KU: Homecoming 1979.
When asked by your friends and relatives back home where Lawrence and the University of Kansas have to offer in art, you might probably have found yourself blushing, thinking intently and stalling for time, only to come up with the brilliant answer,
So in an attempt to avoid these awkward situations in the future, I have taken a special approach to our research, study and consultation, the following list of some of the more interesting people and events, as well as those who are interested in law, law enforcement and the University have to offer.
Or, if you are lucky to know of some of the main tourist attractions the state has to offer, and if you don't mind being laughed at, you might respond that the University is fortunate enough to have the state's most popular tourist attraction—George Washington University. History, which houses General Custer's stuffed horse, Comanche.
john COLUMNIST fischer
Most delicious meal served on campus: shrimpmates at the dorms.
Favorite college mixed drink: Seven and Seven.
best restaurant: Don's Steak House.
Favorite kind of ice cream: mint chocolate chip.
Best place to pick up girls (or guys):
Shenanjian's.
The greatest rip-off. Tie between the textbook buyback at the end of each semester and KU parking fines.
THE BEST BARGAIN: a $1.69 six-
pack of Coors.
Best pool tables: Johnny's Tavern.
Best pool tables: Johnny's Tavern.
Nicest looking building on campus:
Dyche Hall.
Best place to eat peanuts: Ichabod's favorite swimminghole: Chi Omega fountain.
Best milkshake: Vista's chocolate-chip shake, hands down.
Most common solution to beating the munchies: doughnuts from Joe's Bakery.
Best Mexican food: Aztec Inn.
Most popular statue: Jimmy Green.
The most popular course: HDL 160.
Best-liked hamburger and French fries: Vista again.
MOST POPULAR intellectual magazine on campus: "Cosmopolitan." Postings: Carl F. Hirschman
Best barbecue: G's.
Most popular amusement game: Seawolf.
The coldest beer in town: Johnny's Tavern.
The all-time greatest mystery in Lawrence: the kidnapping of Baby Jay.
favorite sand bar
BEST ONION rings: Sonic Drive-In.
women. Rattlesnake The Hawk.
Favorite bar: The Hawk.
Most popular entertainment for women: ladies night at The Bird.
The ultimate runaround: A tie between semester enrollment and the process for signing up for job interviews in the Business School.
Most notable personality: John "The Tan Man" Snvder.
Well, there you have it. And you thought Lawrence really didn't have much to offer to the world except an old stuffed horse.
"God bless America
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